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Example sentences for: covet
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$3-- If just one kid comes home from school determined not to covet his neighbor's ox, that will more than make up for his utter ignorance of science and history.
We'll treat celebrity DNA like designer clothes, hankering for Michael Jordan's genes the way we covet his Nike sneakers today.
10) Thou shalt not covet.
Bell examines this question, but phrases it in terms of "envy," writing, "Democracy is by nature contentious because men constantly covet what other men have ... the result is often--in Nietzsche's term--ressentiment or envy, anger, and hatred towards those at the top."
None of these reforms pleased the Russians and Prussians, who continued to covet Polish territory.